Posted on 05/22/2013 6:47:05 AM PDT by Perseverando
The Progressive believes in precisely two things: his own magnificence and the constructive power of brute force. In combination, they lead him naturally from the role of pestiferous busybody to brutal dictator. Where the productive man dreams of the things he might create if only left alone by his fellows, the Progressive dreams of the world he could create if only the lives and property of his fellows were at his disposal. The roots of his pathology lie in that oldest and most destructive of all human vices, the desire for the power to rule over other men.
As naked power-lust is a rather ugly motive, the Progressive rationalizes his desire to rule as a concern for human welfare, seeing himself as a great humanitarian, far superior morally to the lesser beings who pursue merely materialist ends such as their own prosperity and who frequently object to his program for achieving Utopia. This assumed moral superiority spills over into fields of practical accomplishment, and the Progressive imagines himself capable of allocating resources and even directing entire industries far more efficiently than a free market, often despite not even having any business or scientific experience. But despite what the Progressive believes about himself, the desire to compel others to obey his orders is what drives him forward. To satisfy this desire, there is ultimately no limit to what actions he will take, for he respects none of the restrictions on government officials intended to guarantee individual freedom that have been developed and set forth in written or unwritten constitutions.
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Your conservative definition is great, I’d extrapolate a bit further on “the US Constitution is perfect”.
It’s the recognition of objective right and wrong beyond human definition, ie, recognition of God’s Perfect Law, on which the Constitution is based.
pes·tif·er·ous [pe-stif-er-uhs]
adjective
1. bringing or bearing disease.
2. pestilential.
3. pernicious; evil.
4. Informal. mischievous; troublesome or annoying.
Origin:
142575; late Middle English < Latin pestiferus plague-bringing, equivalent to pesti- (stem of pestis) pest + -ferus -ferous
And now in a sentence: “Obamacare is pestiferous.”
Tell you what, it’s hard to find an adjective and a noun that go together any better than “pestiferous busybody”!
Thanks for posting this piece — it’s great!
I totally agree with you. :)
Your screen name is correct.
Liberal- No one is perfect except for me, and whoever tells me I am perfect. We perfect ones can force all others, for their own good, to become as perfect as we are. This is all under the guise of altruism, those poor misguided souls need our help whether they know it or not!
Libertarian - No one is perfect, so no one should be in charge
Republican - We’re moral, so we’ll force you to be moral too.
Democrat - We’re Immoral, we don’t care and we’ll eventually stuff you all in ovens.
Two of those support abortion and the homosexual agenda, one is against those and fight them.
That explains why the writing is so good. Thank for posting this.
Let me reiterate that once government is permitted to use force at all in a given matter, any degree of force is allowed.
That's absurd. If that were the case that friendly corner traffic cop would have morphed into a body-armor-wearing monster in a black uniform using heavy infantry weapons and riding armored vehicles by now. And we know that's not...oh, wait.
That was good! LOL!
I think we need a good Matt Bracken meme about now.
Nailed it! Thanks.
Liberal - Everybody will be made perfect
There, fixed it for you.
Liberal - Everybody will be made perfect (or exterminated, if indoctrination/re-education fails.)
I like this a little better.
This is the problem with altruism. If altruism is believed to be man's prime virtue, then the next step is the belief that if some are not altruistic then they are bad people because they are depriving others of what they must provide them. Then, the final step is the belief that those non-altruistic people need to be forced to be altruistic.
No. Look, we’ve been over this. The LP takes a “no stance, but we think it should be a States issue and not Federal” position.
Libertarians like me are pro-life. Unabashedly so.
False, and dishonest, the LP is pro-abortion with zero limits and all the way up to delivery, no interference whatsoever. Along with the homosexual agenda.
Here is their official position and the platform that you promote and defend while pretending to be "Unabashedly" pro-life
Here is what you are promoting and lying about. http://www.lp.org/platform
1.4 Abortion
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
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